Worker killed at GlobalFoundries

Updated 6:55 am, Friday, June 27, 2014

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A 54-year-old construction contractor from Clinton County was killed in an industrial accident at GlobalFoundries' Fab 8 facility Thursday evening, State Police said.

The incident unfolded just after 6:30 p.m. while a six-man crew from John Danforth Construction was moving an industrial air exchanger into the fourth floor of the Technology Development Center in the Luther Forest Technology Campus, troopers and the company said.

State Police did not immediately explain how the man — identified as Michael R. Hauf of Saranac — was killed.

The company would only confirm that a contractor was involved in what it described as a "serious incident."

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Hauf's death has halted all construction work at the site until further notice, the company said.

In a statement from spokesman Travis Bullard, the California-based semiconductor manufacturer said it followed its "site safety and emergency response procedures" and that there is no ongoing safety risk as a result of the incident.

Normal operations at the Fab 8 facility were not affected, the company said.

Construction of the nearly $2 billion TDC research and development complex was announced in January of last year.

Another construction worker was injured at the Fab 8 facility in February.